Moodys Investors Service has made some drastic cuts in the ratings of Greek structured finance deals, significantly shortening the distance between the highest rated transactions and the sovereign.
Senior tranches of vanilla ABS and RMBS deals in Europe should continue to benefit from the flight-to-quality mentality that has recently held sway in the continent, analysts from the Royal Bank of Scotland in an ABS strategy report that provides an outlook for 2012.
BTG Pactual, through its retail banking unit Banco PanAmericano, signed a non-binding agreement to acquire Brazilian Finance & Real Estate, which specializes in property and real estate securitization.
Indian solar developer Welspun Energy is looking to securitize revenue from its 15-megawatt unit in Gujurat after three months of operation.
DDR Corp. has appointed Luke Petherbridge senior vice president of capital markets.
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How much higher can a rating agency grade a structured finance deal over its respective sovereign?
Structured finance players in Latin America pushed through 2011 with few scars, especially given the turmoil pounding European markets.
In the emerging markets at the edges of Europe, 2011 did not generate much excitement.
U.K. banks looking to offload large portfolios of CRE loans are offering buyers financing options to make sales more attractive.
Now that CLOs are diminishing as the biggest investors in European loans, S&P, Moody's and Fitch need to find a new market for shadow ratings.